Lives and works in Manchester, UK
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Door, (detail) – 2011 | pencil and watercolour on paper | 45cm x 33cm
Working mainly in pencil on paper, drawing is at the core of Rachel Goodyears practice. Occasionally Goodyear will allow her visions to slip off the page into the realms of sculpture and animation. Whatever the medium however, her work shares a common language of intricate detail and ambiguous narratives.
Tales of fear and desire pervade Goodyears work. Her characters both human and animal reside in an existence where social etiquette no longer or maybe never applied. They explore each other and the world around them with innocent curiosity and a playful dark humour.
Edition of 3 and 1 AP. #1/3 is sold.Goodyear looks for unlikely relationships in everything that she encounters and through a process of internal scrapbooking, weaves new narratives that are delicate in their nature and unsettling in their content.
Rachel Goodyear, (born 1978 Oldham, Lancashire U.K.), graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University of Leeds with a BA (Hons) Fine Art in 2000. Since that time she has exhibited extensively within the U.K. and internationally. Her most recent exhibitions include, Drawing Stories: Narration in Contemporary Graphic Art at, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, and Modifications of the Host at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, U.K.
In 2009 Goodyear was shortlisted for the Northern Art Prize, The Best of Manchester Awards and was listed as Guardian Newspapers Artist of the Week. Her work is held in a number of private and public collections.
Presented by curator Anne-Marie Ros at 4 the Korenbeurs Schiedam.
Courtesy: Rachel Goodyear & International 3 Manchester, UK
4 The Korenbeurs Schiedam 